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What's a magical theorem in logic?

Some theorems are magical: their hypotheses are easy to meet, and when invoked (as lemmas) in the midst of an otherwise routine proof, they deliver the desired conclusion more or less straightaway&...
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"Robinson arithmetic" for (some) levels of $L$?

I'll write "$\mathcal{L}_\alpha$" for the fragment $\mathcal{L}_{\infty,\omega}\cap L_\alpha$. Say that a countable admissible $\alpha$ is Robinsonian if there is some sentence $\varphi\in\mathcal{L}...
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